[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #2691: HTML comments in posts aren't handled properly.

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#2691: HTML comments in posts aren't handled properly.
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 Reporter:  gord                 |        Owner:  anonymous     
     Type:  defect (bug)         |       Status:  reopened      
 Priority:  normal               |    Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General              |      Version:  2.8.5         
 Severity:  normal               |   Resolution:                
 Keywords:  wpautop needs-patch  |  
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Comment(by vikingjs):

 Replying to [comment:5 scribu]:
 > The function responsible is called wpautop() and can be found in /wp-
 includes/formatting.php

 I took a look and I'm probably not the guy to be fixing this. As far as I
 can tell the band-aid advised by random above is a good fix. The reason I
 think I'm not the guy is because I don't know why stripslashes() and
 clean_pre() are needed for a comment, so I bow to the superior
 understanding of others.

 random calls his patch a band-aid, but it would be just another in a long
 list of band-aids in the function. The philosophy seems to be to add
 paragraph tags and then go back and repair special cases where they broke
 things. This would be just another special case. Ideally it would be
 better simply not to apply the wpautop routines to comments (or some of
 the other cases like embed tags) in the first place.

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